BIG BANG WAS FLUID

The latest experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) show that the early Universe may have behaved like a fluid. By smashing particles together at close to the speed of light, the LHC recreates the plasma of quarks and gluons – the particles that make up protons and neutrons – that filled the Universe just after the Big Bang. These tests found that the plasma follows the same physical laws as fluids. Researchers will continue to examine the plasma to learn more about its properties.